Richmond Scholars

kelliebm
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:20:08 +0000

The money doesn’t trickle down because they offer merit aid to more students than who actually will be getting it, just like how they offer admission to many more students than the actual target class size. There are supposed to be 50 Richmond Scholars, but they offer the award to about 80 because they know not everyone will accept. So there is no left over money.

The finalists who don’t make the cut to become Richmond Scholars are first in line for the Presidential money, THEN the very top of the semi-finalists, THEN really good applicants who probably would have made it far in the Scholar rounds but didn’t apply in time.

Jah, I had very very VERY similar stats to your daughter and made it to the semi-finalist round but no further in 2008 and did not receive any merit money. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that UR receives many competitive applicants and chooses to distribute their merit money in huge chunks rather than small scholarships.